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Atomic upgrading of distributed systems

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Sander van der Burg,

Eelco Dolstra,

Merijn de JongeAuthors Info & Claims

HotSWUp '08: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1490283.1490294

Published: 20 October 2008 Publication History

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Upgrading distributed systems is a complex process. It requires installing the right services on the right computer, configuring them correctly, and so on, which is error-prone and tedious. Moreover, since services in a distributed system depend on each other and are updated separately, upgrades typically are not atomic: there is a time window during which some but not all services are updated, and a new version of one service might temporarily talk to an old version of another service. Previously we implemented the Nix package management system, which allows atomic upgrades and rollbacks on single computers. In this paper we show an extension to Nix that enables the deployment of distributed systems on the basis of a declarative deployment model, and supports atomic upgrades of such systems.

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DOI:10.1145/1490283

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Di Cosmo RLienhardt MTreinen RZacchiroli SZwolakowski JEiche AAgahi ACrnkovic IChechik MGrünbacher P(2014)Automated synthesis and deployment of cloud applicationsProceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering10.1145/2642937.2642980(211-222)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2014
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Saur KNeamtiu I(2013)Report on the fourth workshop on hot topics in software upgrades (HotSWUp 2012)ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review10.1145/2433140.243315247:1(55-62)Online publication date: 29-Jan-2013
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van der Burg SWahler MDig D(2012)A generic approach for deploying and upgrading mutable software componentsProceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades10.5555/2664350.2664356(26-30)Online publication date: 3-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2664350.2664356
van der Burg S(2012)A generic approach for deploying and upgrading mutable software components2012 4th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp)10.1109/HotSWUp.2012.6226613(26-30)Online publication date: Jun-2012
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